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The world record 55 million dirhams (5 billion forints) spent by a person in Dubai who has plenty to eat. This broke a record that had existed in the UAE for more than a decade.
Emirates Auctions on Saturday Sold a P7 license plate at a charity auction – which at first looks like just a number 7, because the letter P is on the left edge of the license plate. The proceeds of the food aid initiative of Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid, Ruler of Dubai, are Stop a billion meals The identity of the auction winner is not disclosed.
Bidding started at 15 million dirhams and reached 30 million in seconds, then bidding froze for a few minutes at 35 million dirhams, which was recommended by Pavel Valerievich Durov, the French-Emirati businessman who founded the Telegram application. Then the party kicked off, with prices rising rapidly, reaching 55 million dirhams.
In the UAE, it has become customary to auction off these licensed paintings for charity, saying that if the rich wanted to show them off, they should flaunt them for charity. The previous record was set in 2008, when they paid 52.2 million dirhams for Abu Dhabi number plate 1.
These license plates can fetch amazing prices even outside the Middle East, because people with unnecessary billions live elsewhere. At the beginning of the year in Hong Kong, someone snapped up the license plate with the single letter “R” for HK$25.5 million (1.1 billion forints) at auction.
